Introduction
Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world and is second only to Christianity in number of adherents. Muslims live in all parts of the world, but the majority of Muslims are concentrated in the Middle East and Asia North Africa, Central Asia, Indonesia and Malaysia. Today, more than a billion people around the world are Muslims. It is very well known that certain networks have flourished in many countries throughout the world. Small but…show more content…

Rumors about him were spreading to neighboring countries and from all over Arabia, people began to flock to look at his achievements. In 632, Muhammad died, in fact, being at that time ruler of all Arabia. He had his own army, police and civil service. So he was the first, who united all the Arabian people under the one state, using Islam as ideology. A hundred years later his followers conquered Armenia, Persia, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt and Spain. They crossed the Pyrenees and invaded France. And if Charles Martel not defeated them in 732, perhaps the entire Western world today would be a Muslim. It was an empire stretching from the Atlantic ocean to Spain to India, the empire. Until now, historians are amazed and can not explain the historical relics brought to life by the advent of Islam. Part of the attractiveness of the new doctrine was its similarity to Eastern Christianity. Islam offers a realistic and practical way to change your life, who can follow simple people.
Islam has two meanings: Peace, and submission to Allah (God). Pious Muslims adhere to the five pillars of Islam: acknowledging that there is no true god except God and that Muhammad is the prophet of God; praying five times a day toward Mecca; giving alms to the poor; fasting during the month of Ramadan (the ninth month of the lunar year); and for those who are financially and physically able, making an annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Islam also requires belief in six articles of

Afghanistan as a 'crusade' (2004). Commenting on the Iraq conflict, Radhakrishnan (2004) states:
The Bush-Blair blitzkrieg in Iraq with utter impunity and scorn to the UN and international opinion, the effect of which on Islam, Islamic World, Islamic fundamentalism, and Islamic psyche has yet to unfold, is one of the many crude, cruel, hideous, and horrendous manifestations of this fast unfolding US "usurpation" of the third world countries on the pretext of crushing (religion-linked) terrorism.….

Evaluate the role of Islamic fundamentalism in the 1979 Iranian revolution (1200)
Various factors influenced the 1979 Iranian revolution, but at the core of this significant event was Islamic fundamentalism. The Iranian religious leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, led this movement to end the thirty-seven-year reign of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, also known as the Shah of Iran (Diller 1991, p.152). The revolution was a combination of mounting social, economic, political and religious strains. The nation….

Islamic Banking vs. Conventional Banking
In most Islamic countries, they tend to practice two types of financing in banking industry which are conventional and Islamic banking. The country like in Malaysia has successfully developed an Islamic banking system that operates in parallel with the conventional banking system. There is similarity between conventional banking and Islamic banking which helps to promote economic growth provided financing services such as credit facilities for business activity….

1994, 5). Though, of recent years inequality has been blamed on the Islamic religion, gender inequalities were in the Middle East before Islam. However, by radical groups and male elite, women are being discriminated because of their gender due to religious connotations amongst other things. The male bias, like in most religions, has been enforced within society like in the text of the Qur’an. Keddie and Beck asserts that, “In Islamic law women have male guardians; woman’s testimony is worth half that….

Outline:
* Show how Marjane Satrapi grew up under oppression during the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
* Give and explain evidence of how the author presents that different social groups were marginalized/silenced.
* Show how Marji and her parents shared the same beliefs when making reference to the regime.
The graphic novel Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, explores her childhood years in the middle of the Islamic Revolution. Situated in the commotion of the overthrowing of the Shah's regime….

The purpose of this essay is to ask, when Ireland began to industrialise in the 1960s and the 1970s why it mainly occurred in the west. This essay will discuss postcolonial Ireland (1920s-1960s). It will define rural fundamentalism and how it informed social and economic policies in Ireland, it will focus on how poverty, emigration and unemployment and how it played a key role in the eclipsing of the communities of rural Ireland This essay will discuss how the opening up of the economy and the shift….

have only been a dream. And so, with the collapse of one great empire, opportunities arose for the numbers of new kingdoms and societies to follow. The Byzantine Empire and Islamic societies were two especially prominent societies that gained primacy, arising from the fourth to sixth century. Although both Byzantine and Islamic societies created their own empires, with separate rulers and individuals, the Roman Empire heavily influenced their cultural aspects, as demonstrated in their religion, art….

Zionism mean? How did the Enlightenment improve the condition of Jewish peoples in Europe? List 3 examples of European antisemitism. What kind of rationale did Christianity provide for antisemitism? Were Jewish people in Spain treated better under Islamic or Christian rule? When did the Holocaust take place? Approximately how many Jews died because of it?
7 E-Who was Mithra? List 3 similarities between Mithra’s and Jesus’ story? Why did Mithraism disappear? Approximately, how many people follow….

the 80s with the assassination of Egyptian President Sadat A. (October 1981), there emerged a new kind of terrorism - fundamentalist terrorism, primarily Islamic. In the 90s Islamic terrorism has taken the highest intensity in Algeria (Islamic Salvation Army), Egypt (Islamic Group), Lebanon (Hezbollah) and Palestine (Hamas). The most famous Islamic terrorist organization is an international network called Al Qaeda, which in September 11, 2001 has made the biggest terrorist attack in history - the attack….